..The purpose of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of a qualitative performance assessment tool designed to measure hospitals' communication and operational capabilities during a functional exercise...

Public health emergency preparedness at the local level: results of a national survey

..The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic literature review in order to identify and characterize the PHSR literature produced in the U.S. in the past 11 years in the field of public health emergency preparedness...

Impact of tabletop exercises on participants' knowledge of and confidence in legal authorities for infectious disease emergencies

..This study explores the relationship between risk-communication capabilities, as perceived by public officials participating in emergency tabletop exercises, and community size and diversity...

Assessing the construct validity of the Italian version of the EQ-5D: preliminary results from a cross-sectional study in North Italy

Elena SavoiaDepartment of Medicine and Public Health, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, ItalyHealth Qual Life Outcomes 4:47. 2006

..For this reason instruments such as the SF-12 and EQ-5D have been widely proposed as assessment tools to monitor changes in HR-QOL in general populations and very recently in general practice settings as well..

The public health system response to the 2008 Sichuan province earthquake: a literature review and interviews

Leesa LinProject Manager in the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States, and was a student in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health at the time of the experiential learning activityDisasters 38:753-73. 2014

..This framework could be used to describe and analyse the emergency response to other disasters...

..Infant mortality rate (IMR) is used as a population health indicator. We provide an updated description of temporal and geographical trends of IMR in Italy...

Measurement, geospatial, and mechanistic models of public health hazard vulnerability and jurisdictional risk

Marcia A TestaDepartment of Biostatistics and Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center, Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts Drs Testa and Savoia and Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Department of Public Health, State of Connecticut, Hartford Ms PettigrewJ Public Health Manag Pract 20:S61-8. 2014